Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:32:30 -0500 | From | jabbera@student ... | Subject | Re: libata/iswraid DMA Timeout |
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Quoting Martins Krikis <mkrikis@yahoo.com>: [snip] > > I try to do an emegency sync but I fails, and I am forced to reboot. > > In my experience the system was still usable, except the userland > application was hanging. Adding another SATA transaction (to any > disk, I believe), was what made it hang completely. So I think > we've seen the same problem. > > I certainly don't understand enough of libata1 to fix this, > but you could perhaps start by changing your SATA cables or > at least swapping them around to see whether the timeout follows > the cable, perhaps, as it was in my case. [snip]
Was your fault a random occurance or could you always reproduce it. I have only seen mine doing this one particualar operation, and nowhere else, and it is perfectly reproducable every time.
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